- Officials in Vegas talking now about the Cybertruck attack there at the Trump Hotel. Let's listen in. As many of you went to sleep last night, and I just want to give you an update on a lot of what it is that we found through the processing of the Cybertruck. This is a joint investigation involving the FBI, the ATF, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, and these folks worked through the night and found a lot of stuff that is very useful for this investigation.
- As you look at this Cybertruck here, we had to transport this down to our fleet services so that we could really get through this thing. And I remind you that the subject inside, wasn't able to be removed for a very long period of time because it was burnt beyond recognition. And so as we continue to move through this, I'm going to talk a little bit about, his identity and what we believe.
- but I would like to highlight a couple of things that the teams found inside of the Cybertruck that are useful to the investigation. And that, first and foremost, is a military identification. we also found a passport. We found a Desert Eagle 50 caliber semi-automatic pistol. And if you'll notice on a lot of these guns that we're going to talk about here, they're almost just burnt beyond recognition as well.
- there's a SLR model B 30 semi-automatic firearm, number of fireworks that were still in the vehicle that had to be removed. notably, we found an iPhone and a smartwatch, and then several credit cards were also in the name of our subject. Our subject, is 37 year old Matthew Little's burger. He's of Colorado Springs, Colorado, born July 22nd of 1987.
- Now, as you'll see here on a picture of his driver's license. let's see, the question really still remains for me. And I know that there's a lot of you folks in the media that are identifying this person as the person in our vehicle. as I mentioned to you already, his body is burnt beyond recognition, and I do still not have confirmation 100% that that is the individual that was inside of our vehicle.
- And so, as I'm calling it now, the subject or person of interest. I will not come back until I have the confirmation for DNA or medical records that this is indeed, in fact, the subject inside of the vehicle. Now, further complicating this identification of this individual, we also discovered through the coroner's office that the individual had sustained a gunshot wound to the head prior to the detonation of the vehicle, and one of the handguns was found at his feet inside of the vehicle.
- obviously in how we're trying to identify him, and I'm feeling comfortable to give you this information is a tremendous amount of substantial evidence to include. He rented the Toro vehicle. there are two tattoos, one of which was on the stomach and one of which is on the arm, that we can see bits and pieces of it, as in comparison to what it is that we now know.
- He had, on his body. That has given us a lot of confidence that this is, in fact the same person as well as, which the clearly obvious, which is the credit cards, the military identification, the passport. And then furthermore, as you'll see here, in just a very short period of time, we tracked his movements from Colorado to Las Vegas.
- And in a number of the photographs that we were able to determine, he was the individual that was driving the vehicle. And also, I'd like to, iterate this point to you. We still have only ever seen him in this vehicle, and we're not aware of any other subjects involved in this particular case. Now, I would like to acknowledge a couple of things, because I know what's going on in the social media world, and there are a number of things in this case that are similar to the attack in New Orleans.
- we do know that, our subject here served in the military. In fact, he's a current member of the military. Both of the subjects served at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. what we do know about that is, it's a very large military base, and we have no record that they served in the same unit or even at the same years at Fort Bragg.
- Something that continues to remain under investigation. I also know that they both served in Afghanistan in 2009. we don't have any evidence that they were in the same province in Afghanistan, the same location or the same unit. Again, something else that remains under investigation. and we also know, of course, that they both used the rental company Turo to rent their vehicles.
- As far as his military background, it's been confirmed by DoD that he was indeed in the United States Army. He was also a Green Beret operation sergeant who spent most of his time at Fort Carson, Colorado, and in Germany. He was it on approved leave from Germany, where he was serving with the 10th Special Forces Group.
- He was also previously in the National Guard and the Army Reserve. Like to point out to you that, through exceptional, joint investigative effort, we've gotten to a place where we believe we can show you his route to Las Vegas from Colorado. And Carlos will put up the map there for you. And we know that he rented the Cybertruck in Denver on December 28th.
- We tracked his movements through the Tesla charging stations to monument, Colorado on December 30th. On the 31st of December, the truck was charged in Trinidad, Colorado, Las Vegas, New Mexico, and Albuquerque and Gallup, New Mexico. On January 1st. The truck was charged in Holbrook, Flagstaff, and Kingman, Arizona.
- We last tracked the truck in Kingman at zero 533 yesterday morning. The truck was first spotted in Las Vegas at 7:29 a.m. yesterday, and Carlos will pull up a picture of the truck pulling on to fashion show drive. Here. And that, picture was, observed at about 7:34 a.m.. We know that, he pulled into the Trump Valley, and I believe we have a video of that.
- You can see the Cybertruck highlighted there. So through extensive surveillance video, we were able to track him leaving there. And we know that he went, to several different places along Las Vegas Boulevard. And he spent some time in a parking lot of a business near Flamingo and Las Vegas Boulevard. But we didn't have a video of the truck pulling back on to Las Vegas Boulevard from the sands.
- You see that there goes. That's north on the boulevard from Sands at 839, where he then immediately heads to the Trump Hotel, pulls into the valet area. And as, of course, you all know, the explosion occurs within 17 seconds of his arrival at the valet. There's some additional investigative updates that are going to be provided to you, by a couple of the other speakers here, the first of which will be our special agent in charge of the FBI local office, Spencer Evans.
- Spencer. Good morning. My name is Spencer Evans. I'm the special agent in charge of the FBI's Las Vegas division. So the sheriff mentioned we've been working through the night with our partners, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and other agencies to gather all the facts and determine a motive to what was initially reported to the FBI as a bombing incident, to which our special agent bomb techs and others, responded.
- obviously we're always concerned in these sorts of, events to ascertain what the motive is. We understand that everybody's at the forefront of everyone's thoughts. And so looking into exactly what the motivation is remains our number one priority. This is why the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, has been brought into play.
- The Joint Terrorism Task Force, most important part of that acronym is joint. It is done in concert with our partners, which are comprised of more than a dozen investigative agencies, here throughout the state of Nevada. We've been working hand in glove, side by side, tirelessly to determine is there any ongoing threat to the public to identify the subject, to determine any potential connection to other events going on in the world, most notably in New Orleans? And then obviously, to determine if there's, if there's anything else
- that we need to be, tracking down at this time is the sheriffs pointed out, we feel that the subject has been identified, although not conclusively waiting for DNA evidence on that front. however, we do feel like we have the subject identified. And at this time, there is no information about additional, subjects that the FBI is tracking on.
- We are resources, as I mentioned, that have been deployed in support of this event include special Agent bomb techs, our evidence response team, which is processing crime scenes. side by side with the with the forensics folks from Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, our investigators, our intelligence analysts, and then outside of the FBI, Las Vegas field office, we have investigative leads that are being conducted by FBI field offices, both internationally and domestically, as well as always, when the FBI is involved with,
- any sort of case like this, we ask for help for the public. Anyone with information related to this incident, we encourage you to please call one 800, call FBI, or you can submit a tip online@tips.fbi.gov. We've already received thousands of tips related to this incident. The challenge that we face moving forward is to separate those that are pertinent and relevant, and those that can be verified for those, from those that have not.
- For example, one of the tips that we received just today relates to information alluding to this subject's personal experiences related to his time and activity in the military. Again, that's unverified and uncorroborated, but one of many tips and leads that we'll be following up in the days that come.
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